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Explain the main features of Marx' theory of history The opening words of the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels read `the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles'. Marx believed he had discovered the fact that classes were linked to historical periods and the nature if production. He believed that a series of class struggles and revolutions would eventually lead to a classless society. According to A. Heywood, Marx' philosophy on history `outlines why capitalism is doomed and why socialism is destined to replace it'. Marx' theory of history goes further than this however, as Marx said; `the philosophers have only interpreted the world, the point however is to change it'. He therefore believed his work to be `scientific'. Engels declared that he had uncovered the `laws' of historical and social development in his theory of `historical materialism'. Historical materialism held...

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